Parasite for me… I know I’m wrong but I don’t know why.

Can you tell me more about how homestays work and how you find them?

That’s subversive and funny for all of the right reasons.

This was almost the complete comment, answered all the questions it raised as I read along except one thing.

How wide can you spread your toes? I just checked and my fingers (without thumb) is ~18cm.

Helmet ball

But it would translate into higher premiums going forwards. Doesn’t seem like sustainable business practice.

How does one realistically move away from Google maps?

For being a nonce no less!

It’s a serious commitment but, if it is going to be your home as opposed to an investment, then it makes sense to do it typically. Obviously I don’t know your situation but it’s my view that paying towards your own home makes better financial sense than renting in the long term.

I might be addicted to this stuff. For a brand readily available in supermarkets it is really good, delicious and hot.

It isn’t anything like tobasco though imo.

Still makes me cringe thinking about what we gave up.

Tbf, I was confused by the wording and your joke clarified it for me.

I’m trying to square away what the difference is between this and George RR Martin reading Homer and Tolkien and others and then producing A Song of Ice and Fire…

Chimpanzee eating a kebab. Nice!

I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it

My wife kept saying we should get a Dyson, but I wouldn’t contribute to the cost so we bought a Henry.

He’s not getting a penny my money.

Surely it’s the cube pub?

There are services in the UK where they come and clear the house for free. They take the risk on the value of what is in there.

What happened to Giant Bomb? I used to listen to it many years ago…

There are parts of London which are hell to visit because they are overly popular with tourists. An example being borough market at lunch time, it’s all tourists and you can’t move. I don’t begrudge anyone and I can happily just avoid it but it really makes me realise how hard it must be in the much smaller cities with higher ratios.

My wife went to Venice recently with her mum and said that the service staff were predominantly South Asian, so I wonder how much of that 250k is immigrant population there to service the huge tourism industry.